Sunday Reflection

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  Second Sunday of Advent: Preparing for Christmas

  Dec 06, 2019

  We all spend a lot of time getting ready for Christmas. There’s the gifts, the cards, the decorating, the cooking, the visits to Santa, the children’s pageants.

  
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  First Sunday of Advent: Commit to the Kingdom!

  Dec 01, 2019

  This is the first Sunday of the new liturgical year, the First Sunday of Advent. This year we return to the A cycle of readings, with the gospel focus mostly on the Gospel of Matthew. For those who read the daily readings, they are now from Year 1.

  
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  The Solemnity of Christ the King: The one on the cross next to us

  Nov 24, 2019

  Jesus did not need mercy from His Father. He was beautifully innocent. The one who was suspended on a cross for us, hanging between heaven and earth is the one whose death redeems us from the bondage of sin.

  
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  Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Running with the Lord

  Nov 14, 2019

  Two weeks from now the season of Advent will begin. That’s when the most important preparation begins. That is the preparation for celebrating the spiritual becoming physical.

  
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  Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: Do Not Be Afraid!!

  Nov 10, 2019

  The first reading for this Sunday is intense. It describes the suffering of some of the martyrs at the time of the Maccabees.

  
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  Thirty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time: Tax Collector Pt 2–Our Response to Mercy

  Nov 01, 2019

  This Sunday we are once more presented with a tax collector receiving the mercy of God. Last week you might remember we had the parable of the tax co

  
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  Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Walking into Church

  Oct 27, 2019

  For many of us, it is difficult to walk into a Church, even our own parish Church. We enter, and we look at the tabernacle. Perhaps the thought comes into our minds: God is looking at me.

  
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  Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Perseverance in Prayer

  Oct 19, 2019

  Today’s First Reading from the Book of Exodus and the Gospel reading from Luke both speak about perseverance in prayer.

  
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  Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Are we one of the nine or the one out of the ten?

  Oct 13, 2019

  The Gospel reading presents the healing of the ten lepers. Let’s begin by picturing these ten men walking up to Jerusalem.

  
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  Twenty-Seventh Sunday: The First Word in Respect Life

  Oct 06, 2019

  Jesus Christ came to transform the world with love. He did not come to foster hatred. When we fight hatred, we are loving as the Lord loves.